Blue screen of death errors?? Win2K and Win98

[Mule]

I was running my 256MB Ram at PC133 CL3 which is some generic PC133 CL3 ram that won't overclock to CL2. Anyways I had some old 64MB PC100 ram lying around and I thought why not stick it in my machine? The ram is Micron and I overclocked that sucker to run at 133 CL3 to complement my existing ram. Now lately I've occasionally(a few times this past week) been getting the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH errors in both Win2k and Win98. For Win98 this seems about normal, but I have never gotten this before in Win2k. Could it be the Micron ram that could be causing this? I don't really know because I used sandra to test memory benchmarks and it never craps out then, or even when I'm playing UT or CounterStrike. It just crapped out on me randomly when I'm checking mail or surfing the web.

What could it be? I don't think it has to do with heat issues because I've been running this setup for a while with no problems.

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[shiznut123]

If you take the ram out, is it normal again? I had some issues with mixing ram. I mixed my TI ram with micron pc100 cas2 ram and the system would not get into windows. The Micron was the problem.

 

[Mule]

I'm not sure if the ram is conflicting because I'm using it right now and it's fine, if it were conflicting then I'm sure I would have problems all the time, it probably wouldn't even load Windows like you said.

Could it be that I'm pushing the PC100 Ram to do PC133?

 

[bacillus]

<< Could it be that I'm pushing the PC100 Ram to do PC133? >>


not a good idea in view of your present problems so eliminate it from the system &amp; hence your troubleshooting list!

 

[Sir Fredrick]

It could be randomly introducing small errors. As has been suggested already, back it down, see if you still have problems. I'm guessing it's the overclock, or bad RAM

 

[Verygreedy]

Yes. Take the old ram out and see if it still happens.. if yes. Then you may have bad RAM to begin with

 

[Verygreedy]

Aye Matey. It may be bad ram

 

[bacillus]

it may be prudent to run a test on the memory! you can get a program from here!

 

[chuckieland]

anyone try those program yet?